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Posted in Photography

Books everybody should read

Check out the books I think everybody should read, its a work in progress list which should probably see the likes of Seven Habits, books by Chomski and others. If we all understood each other a little more the world would be more awesome.

Posted in Life, Looking Forward, Travel

ODesk and outsourcing

Back to it again, the portfolio needs a bit of a push so I am adding a few new sites into the mix this time in niche’s discovered with a new formula pulling from several new data sets. Ah the wonders of purchasable and scrapeable data online / via api – the formula was refined […]

Posted in Business, C#, Projects, Web Development

Denmark, true story

“Where should we go” “Ukraine” “Na…” *Throws dart* “Denmark, its on” *books København/Aarhus* That was a few weeks ago, 10 days in Denmark later I am home again, feeling strangely idyllic. Denmark took some money, a fair handful of braincells, but I gained so much in return. A fantastic country Denmark, full of friendly cool […]

Posted in Looking Back, Looking Forward, Photography, Travel

New Year, New Camera

What an epic camera. Reminds me how awesome photography is with SLR’s and how even with 35mm I loved it, the idea is to post as many photo’s as pos to go with posts from now on, to be seen how that goes. Anyhow check out the first day of messing about with it, all […]

Posted in Photography, Photography

New blog design for a new year

Its a few weeks into 2011 and a redesign and new plan is in order. I took inspiration from a few fantastic blogs for this theme and make no claims at anything other than trying a fresher look! I intend 2011 to be a much more blog-rich year, I am already brainstorming some posts for […]

Posted in Looking Forward, Travel, WoodyLabs

From SQL Server 2008 r2 to SQL Compact Edition. Doing things the wrong way.

Program written using csharp and SQL Server 2008 r2? Great eh? … What about your users? …Doh. Anyway its good to re look at your data layer, so if this crops up and you need to switch to a more portable solution (Compact edition means anyone can use it on windows) then put in the […]

Posted in Snippets, SQL Server, Transactional SQL

Small update for Reddit Wallpaper Grabber

Just a quick update for the reddit wallpaper grabber which some of you reported issues with. In fact it was more just that reddit was under heavy load and lazily I had no pretty error handling in there. So I quickly added a notification so as to clear up the times when reddit is inaccessible. […]

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